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An artistic medium is the substance the artistic work is made from. So for example acrylic and oil are two media common to painting.
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| x Oil paint |
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Mona Lisa |
Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil. The viscosity of the paint may be modified by the addition of a solvent such as turpentine or white spirit, and varnish...
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| White Flag | |||
| Samson and Delilah | |||
| Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 | |||
| The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even | |||
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| x Acrylic paint |
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Voice of Fire |
Acrylic paint is fast drying paint containing pigment suspension in acrylic polymer emulsion. Acrylic paints can be diluted with water, but become water-resistant when dry. Depending on how much the paint is diluted (with water) or modified with...
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| Quattro Stagioni: Primavera | |||
| Life Imitating Art Imitating Life Imitating Art | |||
| Whaam! | |||
| The Bridge | |||
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| x Watercolor paint |
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Comedy |
Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (Commonwealth and Ireland), also aquarelle from French, is a painting method. A watercolor is the medium or the resulting artwork in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-soluble...
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| A Young Lady's Adventure | |||
| Eggplant | |||
| Monument, Bermuda | |||
| Red Chimneys | |||
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| x Gouache |
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Corridor in the Asylum |
Gouache(English pronunciation: /ɡuːˈæʃ/; French: [ˈɡwaʃ]), also spelled guache, is a type of paint consisting of pigment, a binding agent (usually gum arabic), and sometimes added inert material, designed to be used in an opaque method. It also...
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| The Hat Makes the Man | |||
| Cubist Vertical | |||
| Four Part Brushstrokes | |||
| Untitled | |||
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| x C-print |
C-print or Kodak C-print is a common brand name for a "color coupler print" or "digital color coupler print" and refers specifically to a photographic print made from a color negative using the same extremely light-sensitive silver salts as found in...
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| x Encaustic painting |
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White Flag |
Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added. The liquid/paste is then applied to a surface—usually prepared wood, though canvas and other materials are often used. The...
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| Three Flags | |||
| x Newsprint |
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White Flag |
Newsprint is a low-cost, non-archival paper most commonly used to print newspapers, and other publications and advertising material. It usually has an off-white cast and distinctive feel. It is designed for use in printing presses that employ a long...
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| x Fabric | White Flag | ||
| Come Together | |||
| Passepartout | |||
| Divina Chair | |||
| Franciscan II | |||
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| x Charcoal |
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White Flag |
Charcoal is the dark grey residue consisting of carbon, and any remaining ash, obtained by removing water and other volatile constituents from animal and vegetation substances. Charcoal is usually produced by slow pyrolysis, the heating of wood or...
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| Woman | |||
| Untitled (Woman) | |||
| Church Façade/Church at Domburg (formerly Cathedral) | |||
| Woman | |||
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| x Ceramic |
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Fountain |
A ceramic is an inorganic, nonmetallic solid prepared by the action of heat and subsequent cooling. Ceramic materials may have a crystalline or partly crystalline structure, or may be amorphous (e.g., a glass). Because most common ceramics are...
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| YaYa Ho Lighting System | |||
| Skyscraper Vase | |||
| Iceberg | |||
| Untitled, from the Step series | |||
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| x Varnish |
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The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even |
Varnish is a transparent, hard, protective finish or film primarily used in wood finishing but also for other materials. Varnish is traditionally a combination of a drying oil, a resin, and a thinner or solvent. Varnish finishes are usually glossy...
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| x Lead wire | |||
| x Foil | The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even | ||
| x Newspaper |
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Factum I |
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features, editorials, and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were...
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| Numbers in Color | |||
| x Pastel |
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Woman I |
Pastel is an art medium in the form of a stick, consisting of pure powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are the same as those used to produce all colored art media, including oil paints; the binder is of a neutral hue and low...
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| Oedipus Complex | |||
| Untitled (Head of a young man with model airplane), study for the mural... | |||
| Untitled (Ducks) | |||
| Untitled (Landscape on mirror table) | |||
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| x Crayon |
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Woman I |
A crayon ( /ˈkreɪ.ɒn/, /ˈkreɪ.ən/, or US /ˈkræn/) is a stick of colored wax, charcoal, chalk, or other materials used for writing, coloring, drawing, and other methods of illustration. A crayon made of oiled chalk is called an oil pastel; when made...
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| Quattro Stagioni: Primavera | |||
| City Rooftop | |||
| Oregon Coast | |||
| Untitled (Study for Jealousy) | |||
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| x Graphite |
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Woman I |
The mineral graphite /ˈɡræfaɪt/ is an allotrope of carbon. It was named by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1789 from the Ancient Greek γράφω (graphō), "to draw/write", for its use in pencils, where it is commonly called lead (not to be confused with the...
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| Working drawing for Wall Drawing #937: Various shapes in color | |||
| Junior High School, Hertforshire, England | |||
| Suprematist Drawing | |||
| Untitled | |||
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| x Photograph |
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Atlas: Panel 8 |
A photograph or photo is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the...
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| Verboten | |||
| Clandestine | |||
| Still Life | |||
| One Onion Canon | |||
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| x Porcelain |
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Michael Jackson and Bubbles |
Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating raw materials, generally including clay in the form of kaolin, in a kiln to temperatures between 1,200 °C (2,192 °F) and 1,400 °C (2,552 °F). The toughness, strength, and translucence of porcelain...
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| Sponge Vase | |||
| Porcelain Lamp | |||
| #2 Exile Series | |||
| Skepticism and the Life of Emile Zola | |||
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| x Beeswax |
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Untitled |
Beeswax is a natural wax produced in the bee hive of honey bees of the genus Apis. It is mainly esters of fatty acids and various long chain alcohols. Typically, for a honey beekeeper, 10 pounds of honey yields 1 pound of wax.
The wax is formed by...
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| AIDS | |||
| Untitled | |||
| Untitled Leg | |||
| The Passageway | |||
| x Human hair | Untitled | ||
| x Willow |
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Untitled |
Willows, sallows, and osiers form the genus Salix, around 400 species of deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. In Europe it is found in association with an uncommon...
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| x Bronze |
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Untitled |
Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive. It is hard and brittle, and it was particularly significant in antiquity, so much so that the Bronze Age was named after the metal. However, since "bronze...
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| The Thinker | |||
| Amoeba | |||
| Boudica and Her Daughters | |||
| Judith and Holofernes | |||
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| x Silver plating | Untitled | ||
| x Pewter |
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Drains |
Pewter is a malleable metal alloy, traditionally 85–99% tin, with the remainder consisting of copper, antimony, bismuth and lead. Copper and antimony act as hardeners while lead is common in the lower grades of pewter, which have a bluish tint. It...
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| x Screen-printing |
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Untitled |
Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged...
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| Daystones | |||
| Knoll Shopping Bag | |||
| Princeton University School of Architecture Fall 1993 Lectures | |||
| Cover Your Head/Wear a Condom! | |||
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| x Wax |
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Large Girl with No Eyes |
Wax refers to a class of chemical compounds that are plastic (malleable) near ambient temperatures. Characteristically, they melt above 45 °C (113 °F) to give a low viscosity liquid. Waxes are insoluble in water but soluble in organic, nonpolar...
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| HOMAGE TO CHESSMAN | |||
| HEART/WORM/MIRROR | |||
| Hippopotamus Poison | |||
| Hanging Heads #2 (Blue Andrew with Plug/White Julie, Mouth Closed) | |||
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| x Metal |
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Bed for Ralph du Casse |
A metal (from Greek "μέταλλον" – métallon, "mine, quarry, metal") is an element, compound, or alloy that is a good conductor of both electricity and heat. Metals are usually malleable and shiny, that is they reflect most of incident light. In a...
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| Ducati Senna 916 Series III Motorcycle | |||
| Trophy IV (For John Cage) | |||
| Embryologic House (model) | |||
| Kuba Chair | |||
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| x Tempera |
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The Scream |
Tempera, also known as egg tempera, is a permanent fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigment mixed with a water-soluble binder medium (usually a glutinous material such as egg yolk or some other size). Tempera also refers to the...
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| The Birth of Venus | |||
| Doni Tondo | |||
| The Entombment | |||
| Madonna and Child | |||
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| x Marble |
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Pietà |
Marble is a non-foliated metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite.
Geologists use the term "marble" to refer to metamorphosed limestone; however stonemasons use the term more broadly to...
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| Bacchus | |||
| Battle of the Centaurs | |||
| Cristo della Minerva | |||
| Cupid | |||
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| x White patinated bronze | |||
| x Rubber |
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Mamelles |
Natural rubber, also called India Rubber or caoutchouc, is an elastomer (an elastic hydrocarbon polymer) that was originally derived from latex, a milky colloid produced by some plants. The plants would be ‘tapped’, that is, an incision made into...
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| Embryologic House [flat model] | |||
| Shattered | |||
| x Fiberglass |
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Mamelles |
Fiberglass (or fibreglass) (also called glass-reinforced plastic, GRP, glass-fiber reinforced plastic, or GFRP), is a fiber reinforced polymer made of a plastic matrix reinforced by fine fibers of glass. It is also known as GFK (for German:...
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| Sans II | |||
| La Fonda Chair | |||
| Wax Impressions of the Knees of Five Famous Artists | |||
| Nesting Tables | |||
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| x Wood |
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Mamelles |
Wood is a hard, fibrous tissue found in many trees. It has been used for hundreds of thousands of years for both fuel and as a construction material. It is an organic material, a natural composite of cellulose fibers (which are strong in tension)...
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| Crucifix | |||
| Untitled (Uncertainty Principle) | |||
| Bed | |||
| Untitled (also referred to as Kinetic Sculpture) | |||
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| x Aluminium |
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Lightning with Stag in its Glare |
Aluminium ( /ˌæljuːˈmɪniəm/ AL-ew-MIN-ee-əm) or aluminum (American English; /ˌəlˈuːmɪnəm/ ə-LOO-mi-nəm) is a silvery white member of the boron group of chemical elements. It has the symbol Al, and its atomic number is 13. It is not soluble in water...
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| L'instantaneite ou le Parachute Perenneen | |||
| Rolling Discs | |||
| La Fonda Table Prototype | |||
| Broken Circle | |||
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| x Wire |
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The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even |
A wire is a single, usually cylindrical, flexible strand or rod of metal. Wires are used to bear mechanical loads and to carry electricity and telecommunications signals. Wire is commonly formed by drawing the metal through a hole in a die or draw...
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| Wire Chair (DKR1) | |||
| Cow | |||
| 12th Wire Octagonal | |||
| Cirque Calder | |||
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| x String | Head and Leaf; Head and Vase | ||
| Mobile | |||
| x Thread |
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Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibres, suitable for use in the production of textiles, sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, embroidery and ropemaking. Thread is a type of yarn intended for sewing by hand or machine. Modern...
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| x WEB |
WEB is a computer programming system created by Donald E. Knuth as the first implementation of what he called "literate programming": the idea that one could create software as works of literature, by embedding source code inside descriptive text,...
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| x Postcard |
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A postcard or post card is a rectangular piece of thick paper or thin cardboard intended for writing and mailing without an envelope.
In some places, it is possible to send them for a lower fee than for a letter. Stamp collectors distinguish between...
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| x Found object |
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A found object, in an artistic sense, indicates the use of an object which has not been designed for an artistic purpose, but which exists for another purpose already. Found objects may exist either as utilitarian, manufactured items, or things...
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| x Stainless steel |
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Aurora Fountain |
In metallurgy, stainless steel, also known as inox steel or inox from French "inoxydable", is defined as a steel alloy with a minimum of 10.5% to 11% chromium content by mass.
Stainless steel does not corrode, rust or stain with water as ordinary...
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| Travel Bar | |||
| Purple/purple | |||
| Untitled | |||
| Two Lines Up-Contrapuntal | |||
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| x World Wide Web |
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My Google Search History |
The World Wide Web (abbreviated as WWW or W3, commonly known as the Web, or the "Information Superhighway"), is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text,...
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| x colored pencil | Female Rejection Drawing, from the Rejection Quintet | ||
| Photo Albums | |||
| Chicago Rejection Drawing, from the Rejection Quintet | |||
| Ed Glaze | |||
| Rejection Breakthrough Drawing, from the Rejection Quintet | |||
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| x pearwood | Armchair | ||
| x printed cotton | Cutout Tablecloth [Tan and Natural] | ||
| Cutout Tablecloth [Orange and White] | |||
| Cutout Tablecloth [Pink and Red] | |||
| Cutout Tablecloth [Red and White] | |||
| x caviar | Untitled | ||
| x electronic LED | I Am a Man | ||
| Electric Sign | |||
| x thirty gelatin silver prints | Month of June, from the series Found | ||
| x video monitors | Egg Grows | ||
| x polacolor prints | Topaz | ||
| x bonded nickel | The World Trade Center, from the series Buildings of Disaster | ||
| The Watergate, from the series Buildings of Disaster | |||
| The Unabomber's Cabin, from the series Buildings of Disaster | |||
| Chernobyl, from the series Buildings of Disaster | |||
| Oklahoma City Federal Building, from the series Buildings of Disaster | |||
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| x two-way mirror foil | Lamp 'Lightshade-Shade' | ||
| x photostat | Untitled | ||
| Untitled (You Invest in the Divinity of the Masterpiece) | |||
| x Gum bichromate print | Poplar Trees and Cottage | ||
| Mary and Lotte, Innsbruck-Tyrol | |||
| x acrylic lacquer | Untitled | ||
| Untitled | |||
| x American walnut | Secrets | ||
| x collage of dye diffusion transfer prints | Shrine, from the series Temptation of St. Antony | ||
| x twenty-four digital prints | British Food | ||
| x resin | Solos and Duets | ||
| Eponge (SE180) (Sponge [SE180]) | |||
| Big Wedge | |||
| Eponge, (SE251) | |||
| Reciprocating Wedge | |||
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